Elswets Rosemary Rice Food

ROSEMARY RICE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine all ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-18 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. , Remove from the heat; let stand for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork before serving.

LIGHT ROSEMARY RICE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, saute onion and garlic in oil until tender. Add broth and water; bring to a boil. Stir in rice, rosemary and pepper. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-18 minutes or until rice is tender. Remove from heat; stir in cheese.

ELSWET'S ROSEMARY RICE

Steps:

• Heat the oil over medium high heat in a medium-sized sauce pan that has a lid.
• Add the rosemary, garlic, and red pepper.
• Then cook the green onions and parsley until soft- 2-3 minutes.
• Add rice, and salt, and cook, stirring constantly for 30 seconds.
• Pour in the chicken broth and let rice cook on low heat until liquid is absorbed- 15-17 minutes.
• Add one cup of HOT water, add the gumbo filé [or sassafras leaves] and continue to cook until rice is done.
• Remove from heat and let sit for 5 minutes.
• Stir in vinegar and serve hot.

RICE WITH ROSEMARY

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan combine two cups of water, the bay leaf and rosemary and bring to a boil. Add rice, bouillon cube, oil and salt. Return to a boil and reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, for 10 minutes.
• Stir rice with a fork. Simmer, covered, for another 10 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.

ELSWET'S JASMINE RICE

Steps:

• Deposit the loose tea into a tea ball and drop into the 1/4 cup hot water and let steep.
• Pour 5 cups cold water to a 2 quart pot, add 1 teaspoon salt and rice, and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and cook until done; approximately 20 minutes.
• When fully cooked, drain rice and deposit into a large bowl.
• Add margarine, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, and black pepper, stirring well to mix.
• Remove tea ball from 1/4 cup jasmine tea and set aside; pour tea over rice and stir well to mix.
• Serve and enjoy!

ELSWET'S ROAST CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Wash, dry, and oil your chicken.
• Place on rack in a shallow open roasting pan. Rub the skin with salt and pepper, rubbed sage, and fresh ground rosemary. Place onion, apple, thyme, coffee, garlic, and sage leaves into cavity.
• Cover the top and sides of the bird with clean white cheasecloth which has been moistened with oil. Place the pan in preheated oven. Do not add water [just the coffee] or cover the pan!
• Baste the chicken from time to time with the pan drippings.
• Roast for 30-45 minutes per pound, depending on chicken size, allowing longer per pound for a smaller chicken than for a larger one.
• About 3/4 through the cooking time, turn the bird breast side up and finish cooking. The chicken is done when the thigh meat is soft when pinched.
• Do NOT pierce the skin with a fork as this allows all the wondermous juices to escape.
• Remove chicken to a heated platter and serve.
• If you do not have access to the oil cloth, loosely cover the bird for the first 3/4 of cooking, turn, and remove cover for the remainder of baking time to allow browning.

ROSEMARY RICE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, saute onion and garlic in oil until tender. Add broth and water. Stir in the rice, rosemary and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-18 minutes or until rice is tender. Remove from the heat; stir in Parmesan cheese.

ELSWET'S CREOLE STYLE CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Chicken: Place chicken pieces into a large pot. Add water, salt and pepper and bay leaf to the chicken pieces, enough to cover the chicken.
• Partially cover your pot and cook on medium until tender. Simmer gently, do not allow the pot to boil! The chicken will take 3 or 4 hours. When tender, remove the pieces from the broth, and keep warm.
• Gravy: There should be 3-4 cups of broth in the pot. Skim off the fat and measure the broth. For each cup of skimmed broth, mix 1 1/2 teaspoons of the fat with the same amount of flour.
• Stir several spoonfuls of the hot broth into the fat-flour mixture, and then pour the mixture back into the broth in the kettle.
• Cook the gravy until it is slightly thickened. Add sage, rosemary, and thyme, and salt and pepper to taste.
• Dumplings: Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Beat the egg, add the milk to the egg, and mix with the dry ingredients.
• Drop by spoonfuls into the simmering chicken gravy, or roll out to a 1/4 inch thickness and cut into 1 inch by 2-inch pieces and drop into the gravy.
• Cover tightly and cook for 15 minutes. The cover must NOT be removed, while the dumplings are cooking.
• Debone the chicken, add back to pot. Add white wine and Gumbo File (ground sassafras leaves), stir and let heat for 8 minutes.
• Serve.

ELSWET'S BAKED SIRLOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line a loaf [bread] pan with aluminum foil. Grease the bottom with the full 1 teaspoon of olive oil, and place your bacon-wrapped sirloin steaks into the pan. Space them well from one another and from the sides, deposit a crushed garlic clove atop each steak, and arrange onion quarters in the corners of the pan.
• Pour the liquid ingredients equally over both steaks, then sprinkle the dry ingredients evenly.
• Cover the pan with aluminum foil and marinade overnight (tastes fantastic even when you don't have time for this step).
• Bake for 45 minutes on 350°F, after which, baste, turn onion quarters, recover, and bake for a additional 45 minutes (a total of 90 minutes baking time).
• Remove to serving plate, garnish, and serve. Enjoy!